Author:Halseth, G; Meiklejohn, CLDate:May 2009This paper is interested in the small town of Fouriesburg in South Africa's Free State. While the town was once a thriving service centre for a surrounding agricultural region, this traditional economy has faded. Given that the nearby town ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Jun 2017The aim of the paper is to identify key principles for adapting SA settlement patterns to climate change. Section 1 reviews the range of climate-related impacts likely to affect SA settlements using climate change models and scenarios as a ...Read more
Author:Tasan-Kok, T; Babalik-Sutcliffe, E; Van Huyssteen, Elsona; Oranje, MDate:Jan 2018The long-neglected task of defining the discipline of planning, describing the multiplicity of influences impinging upon it and unravelling the complementary (and even contradictory) discourses constituting it probably means probing the core ...Read more
Author:Le Roux, Alize; Mans, Gerbrand G; Van Heerden, Quintin; Ludick, ChantelDate:Nov 2018There is a need for models and tools, to better understand/explore the impacts of future policies on land use, to predict behaviour under specific scenarios, inputs and pressures, to study, understand and explore links and phenomenas. Urban ...Read more
Author:Landman, K; Liebermann, SDate:Mar 2005In SA Crime Quarterly No 8 2004, the argument was made for better use of bylaws by city governments in an effort to prevent crime. Another equally effective tool available to municipalities lies in the area of urban planning. Crime is closely ...Read more
Author:Busgeeth, K; Brits, A; Whisken, JBDate:Apr 2008The paper starts off describing some of the most common challenges faced by government in sourcing data on informal settlements. It then goes further providing an overview of past attempts and current practice in the monitoring of informal ...Read more
Author:Mokonyama, Mathetha T; Kistan, Kenny FDate:Apr 2008Based on the life cycle dynamics of the South African population, the paper investigates the implications of such dynamics on the design requirements of public transport services. The life cycle dynamics considered in this paper refer ...Read more
Author:Unknown authorDate:Aug 2016Smart Cities emerge when investments in human and social capital and traditional (transport) and modern (ICTs) communication infrastructure fuel sustainable economic growth and high quality of life, with a wise management of natural resources, ...Read more